Mellotronists

Spendy...only ten or so made? I thought there were quite a number more
than that...

Someone had one in Atlanta a few years ago and put it on eBay.
Beginning bid was only a few hundred dollars, and he got no bites I
suspect because he misspelled Chamberlin as Chamberlain. I don't
remember how I stumbled onto it...maybe I thought Rhythm Mate was two
words...??? Nowadays, if a misspell in eBay's search engine is
obvious...a little message pops up: "did you mean _______?"

(optagan, optiggon, optigon, awpptuhgawn, ...)

Anyway I e-mailed the person and suggested that s/he ought to try
again with the correct spellings...and after relisting I think they
got well over a grand for it...

Would I want one for $4,000? They're cool rhythm boxes (Kean had one
at his house in perfect order), but the innards some geppeto in a
backyard shop could easily build in an afternoon. The guy who built
the homemade 'tron using a gang mount of old Sony Walkman cassette
players would have a field day with a project like that.